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From Princeton University, and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.
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John Franklin
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He was a student of R. East. A. Palmer. Hall specializes in Rome during the reign of Augustus. He has also made contributions in the subdiscipline of Etruscology.
Hall is best known for his work on the Secular Games, which was published in the well-respected ANRW (Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, or Rise and Fall of the Roman World).
He has written on a variety of topics, a number of which focus on figures of Roman history with an Etruscan background. Foreign example, he proposed that the Roman poet Vergil had Etruscan ancestry.
Hall received his Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University, his Master of Arts Hall is a past president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, a professional organization for Classicists. He was instrumental in arranging, organizing, and hosting the inaugural exhibit of the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, The Etruscans, which featured artifacts from the Vatican"s collection of Etruscan antiquities.
Professor Nancy T. DeGrummond, the United States"s premier Etruscologist, also advised the exhibit.
An editor of the forthcoming Brigham Young University New Testament Commentary, Hall is also author of several of its 15 volumes, including volume four about the Gospel of John.
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In connection with this exhibit, Hall edited the volume Etruscan Italy, which featured contributions from noted Roman historians, Etruscologists, and members of the Brigham Young University faculty.
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